Earlier this month, around 9,000 people at Xbo🧜x aℱnd Microsoft lost their jobs. It was the latest set of mass layoffs, t🗹his time seeing the closure of Perfect Dark developer The Initiative and essentially 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the death of⛎ th꧃e Forza Motorsport series thanks to massive cuts at developer Turn 10. It was a chaotic day for the company, and now ZeniMax empl🌳oyees have spoken out about how it all wenᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚt down.
, a number of employees described being left in limbo by the higher-ups, forcibly locked out of the company's internal Slack channel and left waiting for news. According to one developer, the only place that employees could go to was an off-work Discord channel which was filled𓆉 with "people freaking out with no real verifiable 𓆏info."
ZeniMax Employees Speak Out Over "Inhumane" Microsoft And Xbox Layoffs
A current ZeniMax employee called Page Branson told Game Developer that it was "one of the worst days at a job I've ever had in my entire life", with the l🔯ack of communication from Microsoft about who was getting cut causing untold distress and panic among employees. She also believes that the layoffs were a "betrayal of trust of the highest magnitude", and felt like Microsoft was taking the feelings of shareholders into account more than its actual staff.
ZeniMax Media senior QA tester Au🎉tumn Mitchell goes on𝓰e step further than Branson, calling Microsoft "inhumane" for laying off people in the manner of which it did, and explains she was personally left in a state of "fight or flight" during the whole ordeal.
It's not okay. It wasn't normal. I don't ཧcare how many times they do it to try and make it se🔥em normal—it's not. The way they do it is inhumane.
Mitchell goes on to explain that long-time veterans at Microsoft who were cut had to "rush to type a goodbye message into Slack", and calls the treatment of these individuals "disgusting" given how much work they gave to the compꦉany for so long.
Mitchell and Branson both go on to call out Xbox leadership, sucꦉh as Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond, calling them "disconnected" from the realities of working on the ground level, and wish that they would "think about the human cost" when it comes to mass layoffs, for both those that are let go and those that stay.
Both employees also claim that those who have been left to pick up the pieces following these layoffs are struggling too, with morale at an all-time low and employees struggling to do good work thanks to them constantly "looking at a graveyard." It sounds like a truly dire situation at Microsoft, and now that Xbox has gone through four rounds of layoffs in just 18 months, here's hoping that some more stability can be e🍎stablished for those still working t𓄧here.
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